despise

Indulge in some workplace schadenfreude: Some people despise their jobs, but, for whatever reason, refuse to leave.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

Wealth advisers and investment managers are trying to convince their clients to embrace an asset class that many have grown to despise.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Murphy wanted to make one thing perfectly clear: Fans across America might despise the Dodgers, but he does not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026

Regional mayors were an untested concept at the time but Burnham made the role his own - and used it to build a powerful platform, untainted by the London-centric Westminster politics he professes to despise.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

You can only love or despise whatever living was done in that room.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

He’s retiring from his House seat this cycle because he has a young family and genuinely despises political life in Washington.

From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026

To deal with others, he has sent Karoline Leavitt, his pep secretary, into the Brady Briefing Room to handle the reporters he despises.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026

With those words, Imai immediately became something of a folk hero to any baseball fan who despises the Dodgers—a group that currently includes just about everyone outside of L.A.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025

Cicero, who despises Catalina for his reckless idealism, is one of many characters trying to bring the architect to heel.

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

“That deck steward Booper despises had it on his blackboard.”

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

That would make the story about himself, which he despised.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

After all, Miriam may have been despised by everyone who actually knew her, but she still constitutes the family business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

Burnham has long been unusual as a politician - a leader who has managed to be popular in a time when politicians often disappoint and are sometimes despised.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

It’s about understanding that that the removal of a single despised figurehead isn’t enough.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

For bin Laden, who despised the Western influence on the Middle East, his religion, Islam, influenced his political beliefs.

From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple

Haney reminded jurors that despising the rich isn’t a crime, much less an abnormal opinion.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

He is described as a man who had “poked his chin up sideways, carrying his nose with that aforesaid appearance of ‘sniff,’ as though despising an egg which he knew he could not digest.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026

Society is depicted as "worshiping only power and money, despising art, sensitivity, tenderness, where people ...don't talk anymore."

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

“Everything Cohen says about adulating, and then despising Trump, is bolstered and corroborated by massive other evidence.”

From Salon ● May 16, 2024

I think of last night and the idea of my mother committing adultery, hating my father for broken promises, and despising her only child who remains in town.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak